Read an interview with Stanley Lombardo from Jacket Magazine:

Stanley Lombardo

Lombardo: Shakespeare, Chaucer, Beowulf – trying to read some of it in the original, in whatever way I could. The Romantics, especially Keats and Coleridge, but also Wordsworth. I memorized ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat, The Waste Land.

Watch Stanley Lombardo read from his translation of the Iliad:

Professor Stanley Lombardo reads from his translation of the Iliad

One of the speakers at Hollins 34th annual Classics Symposium was Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas, who read from his translation of the “Iliad.”

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